ABSTRACT
Parking standards have long been established as minimum requirements that set the amount of parking each developer needs to provide at a given location to try to meet on-site parking demand and avoid spillover. However, research shows that they lead to parking oversupply, higher housing construction costs and higher car ownership and usage levels. In this chapter, I review a new trend in Dutch planning experience: The application of extremely low minimum off-street parking requirements to new housing developments. I describe this new phenomenon, analyze its origin and discuss its possible effects.
